Trans-Eurasia Information Network Status Report Bo-Hyun SEO Executive Director, APII Cooperation Center Senior Research Fellow, KISDI 2003 APAN Conference, January 2003, Fukuoka, Japan

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January Contents 1. BRIEF HISTORY 2. SPIRIT OF TEIN 3. SHAPE OF TEIN 4. CURRENT ISSUES 5. FUTURE WORK 2003

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January BRIEF HISTORY (Start of TEIN)  Initiative of TEIN Raised (early 2000) President KIM Dae-Jung proposed the TEIN initiative during his visit to Europe >> KR proposed the TEIN Project at ASEM/SOM as a new initiative of the ASEM-III  Supported from Both Regions European Commission expressed support at the 15th Korea-EU Ministerial Meeting (July) NREN of Europe stated support (July) APAN also joined this support (September) Japan agreed to cooperate for the TEIN project at the Korea-Japan Summit Meeting in the framework of ASEM (September)

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January BRIEF HISTORY (ASEM-3 & EGM-1)  Endorsed at ASEM III Summit (Oct. 2000) ASEM Leaders - recognized the importance of cooperation in IT - agreed to narrow the digital divide to promote the joint prosperity of two regions - emphasized the need to establish and expand information and research networks  TEIN.EGM-1 (Mar. 2001) Preliminary presentations and discussions exchanged  1st Phase of TEIN launched (Dec. 2001) - KR & FR/EU realized early basis for the development of TEIN between RENATER & KOREN

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January BRIEF HISTORY (EGM-2 & ASEM-4)  TEIN EGM-2 (Mar. 2002) - For Europe-Asia ASEM linkage, KR-FR linkage will be continued & upgraded to 45Mbps - Intra-Asia connectivity will also be set at 45Mbps, and direct linkages will be established between KR and JP, CN and an ASEM partner from SEA. - An ASEM partner from SEA will serve as a hub for the ASEAN members of ASEM  EC, FR, MY, KR, DANTE etc. (Sep. 2002) MY expressed its willingness to be a SEA hub  ASEM-IV Summit (Sep. 2002) ASEM leaders decided that EGM on Expansion of TEIN to Malaysia as SEA hub will be held in Kuala Lumpur, in the first half of 2003

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January BRIEF HISTORY (Recent Improvements)  KR-JP APII Testbed (NEA) - issues of upgrading the capacity and cooperation of research & other applications are being discussed - to be upgraded to 1Gbps from 8Mbps  TEIN Expansion Links (SEA) - MY confirmed its willingness to be a SEA hub and SOMs between KR-MY have been followed - KR introduced TEIN project & TEIN Expansion Links to SEA to ASEAN region at EAWG 13

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SPIRIT OF TEIN  Objectives of TEIN are to: - contribute to enhancing exchanges and cooperation between Asia & Europe through increased & more effective information flows - enhance & diversify research exchanges and cooperation between Asia & Europe - expand and diversify speedier & more powerful connections between Asia & Europe (ASEM-3)

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SHAPE of TEIN: Current Topology

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SHAPE of TEIN: Prospective Topology

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SHAPE of TEIN (Research: In Progress General) Research Activities on TEIN relates to:  Intra-EU Projects GEANT with EU Members’ Research projects (S) EU ie, FR: RENATER, Bel: BELNET...  Intra-Asia Projects APII with Members’ Research Projects (M) KR, JP, SG.. ie, New IPv6 Project by JP, KR, CA at APECTEL25 (March, Hanoi) as well as previous projects on APII  Trans-EU/Asia Projects Joint projects on TEIN (W) ie, QoS, IPv6, security… (KR/ETRI, KIST, UK: UCL, U.KENT, DE: GMD)

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SHAPE OF TEIN ( Research: Joint Projects on TEIN) EU Korea CER N KPNU  Implementation of HEP Data Grid Using TEIN ※ IST 7th call GMD (DE) KIST  Digital Artistic and Ecological Heritage Exchange International Cooperation Partner of 6WINIT Project UCL (UK) ETRI  A Study on Interoperability Tests of Internet QoS Provisioning Technologies  IPv6 Native Network and Application Interworking Remark Countries Project

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January CURRENT ISSUES  Linkage: Expanding Geographical Coverage - NEA & SEA - capacity, configuration & funding - local network & demand priority  Research & Application activities - identifying joint research areas & other applications  Financial Consideration Identifying financial sources from Int’l or Local Burden-sharing among Parties  >> Cooperation: intergovernmental as well as research groups/users

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January FUTURE WORK 2003: TEIN Expansion Links in SEA

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January SEA-Net Link to North Asia SEA-Net will be able to connect to North Asia through the KR-MY link Link Owners of the KR-MY link will be MIC/KISDI (Korea) and MECM/Malaysian Research Net (Malaysia)

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January Trans-Eurasia Link to South-East Asia Korea France Malaysia TEIN II Link (45 Mbps) Enhancing the existing TEIN connection between KR/KISDI- FR/RENATER to 45Mbps. Extending TEIN link to MY from KR (March 2003)

2003 APAN Conference Fukuoka, January THANK YOU